Rand Paul: Existence And Strength Of ISIS Due To Hawks In Republican Party. On the May 27 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Senator Rand Paul said in an interview with host Joe Scarborough that "hawks" in the Republican Party were to blame for the rise of ISIS:
PAUL: ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately and most of those arms were snatched up by ISIS. These hawks also wanted to bomb Assad, which would have made ISIS' job even easier. They created these people. ISIS is all over Libya because these same hawks in my party loved -- they loved Hillary Clinton's war in Libya. They just wanted more of it. But Libya is a failed state. It's a disaster. Iraq really is a failed state or a vassal state now of Iran. So everything that they have talked about in foreign policy they have been wrong about for 20 years and yet they have somehow the gall to keep saying and pointing fingers otherwise. [MSNBC, Morning Joe, 5/27/15]
PAUL: ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately and most of those arms were snatched up by ISIS. These hawks also wanted to bomb Assad, which would have made ISIS' job even easier. They created these people. ISIS is all over Libya because these same hawks in my party loved -- they loved Hillary Clinton's war in Libya. They just wanted more of it. But Libya is a failed state. It's a disaster. Iraq really is a failed state or a vassal state now of Iran. So everything that they have talked about in foreign policy they have been wrong about for 20 years and yet they have somehow the gall to keep saying and pointing fingers otherwise. [MSNBC, Morning Joe, 5/27/15]
